light plane

collocation in English

meaningsoflightandplane

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light
adjective
uk
/laɪt/us
/laɪt/
not weighing ...
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plane
noun[C]
uk
/pleɪn/us
/pleɪn/
;
a vehicle designed for air travel, with wings and one or ...
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(Definition oflightandplanefrom theCambridge English Dictionary© Cambridge University Press)

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Theselightplaneairstrips would serve as feeders to the main airports.
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He is credited with being the first pilot to fly alightplanearound the world.
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In the 1950s and 1960s, he set nine officiallightplaneworld records, three of which still stand as of 2013.
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The 240-hour program had consisted of 30 hours in alightplaneand 210 hours in jets.
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Anotherlightplane, this one with engine problems, was forced to land on the course in 1948.
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Police, already very worried, pulled the match when they found out alightplanepiloted by a protester was headed to fly around the stadium.
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He also operated alightplanedealership, and developed a fleet of wartime surplus aircraft.
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It was built in 1978, after alightplanecrashed into the smaller incarnation of the tower the previous year.
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Most outback sheep stations and cattle stations have an airstrip and quite a few have their ownlightplane.
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In the shorter program student pilots received 16 flying hours in alightplaneand only 192.5 hours in jet trainers.
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The first event, thelightplane, requires the player to follow a guide path of orbs, or to fly through rings of orbs, and then land on the runway.
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Secondly, the public works programme should be extended and concentrated on improving airports and also building a number of airstrips which would take light planes.
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That is an important question because we know that our light planes have been fired upon since the resolution was passed.
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Thirdly, is he satisfied that safety regulations for light planes are all that they should be at the present time?
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As of 2011, the island had a school, a wharf, a church and a landing strip for light planes.
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As a result, light planes were overturned and 250 homes were either damaged or destroyed.
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Modern light planes commonly use the flat-8 configuration instead as it is lighter and easier to air cool.
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There is a small local airport that serves light planes.
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